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Animated Opening Credits

I'm teaching myself both animation and After Effects, and it occurs to me that I should start with something simple. But I would like to keep the artwork interesting, so the eye doesn't get bored.

I'm thinking in terms of the title sequences from films. Outside of the Pink Panther movies and stuff Saul Bass did for Hitchcock, I'm having trouble remembering them. I know there were a lot of these type of title sequences in the 60s.

Can anybody think of some cool animated title sequences?

Fight Club probably has the best animated opening credits I've seen.

I find it curious no one has mentioned City Slickers 2. Especially you, Ape. You've seen the first, how could you miss the sequel?

Thanks for being an external hard drive... :D

Beee dee beee dee beee dee... no problem Buck.

...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."

Dudley Do-Right with Brendan Fraser has an animated opening sequence, too.

Sorry, I ment the movies are recent-ish. Also didn't "Lost in Space" the TV show also have animated opening credits? I never watched "My Favorite Martian," so I didn't know.

Aloha,
the Ape

...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."

_My World and Welcome To It_ had an animated opening and some animated segments. It was about a cartoonist and his family. I had a crush on the daughter, who was also on the _Mary Tyler Moore Show_. I may be the only person in the world who remembers _My World and Welcome To It_. It didn't last too long.

I can't believe you put that, 'cause I was gonna. I don't remember the show at all, except it had William Windom in it (Commander Decker from the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine"). All I remember was the house opening up and someone was big and someone was small, and I thought the house was eating him.

Thanks for the respnoses, all. I need to go ISO some of those TV credits-- I particularly remember being fascinated by the animated playing cards in Wild Wild West.

I just got an MGM Billy Wilder DVD set. I was looking through some of the trailers and was pleasantly surprised to find pretty much exactly what I had in mind in the Irma La Douce trailer, from 1963. technically, it's about halfway between a Hanna-Barbara cartoon and an animatic, but it's extremely stylish! I'm going to work in my own style, but use it as a template in many ways.

'Four Rooms' has a slick little opening sequence as well.

"Catch Me If You Can" with DiCaprio by Spielburg is one of the most entertaining opening credits animations I've seen in a while. They had a good parody of it on the Simpsons two or three seasons back.

"Conspiracy Theory" with Mel Gibson had some pretty cool credits. More SFX than animated.

I can almost see some others, but now that I have to think about them the names escape me.

It's unfortunate that they're moving the opening credits to the end of the movie. I always thought that they set the mood pretty nicely and gave the audience a chance to settle down.

Good luck with your animation studies.

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Nearly all the James Bond films had title sequences that involved motion graphics. An excellent recent example is the open for "Monsters Inc."

Keep it simple and easily completed early on. If you're shooting for Pink Panther (produced by Richard Williams) right out of the gate, you're bound to end up frustrated and disappointed.

Be sure to post your progress so we can see what you're up to.

Yeah, there's "Catch Me if You Can."
"Tom Cats"
"Monsters Inc."
"The Incredibles" ending credits
"Bewitched" TV
"I Dream of Jeanie" TV
"City Slickers"

Those are all the more reccent-ish ones I can remember at the moment, but I'm sure there are tons more.

Aloha,
the Ape

...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."

Curses, Ape, City Slickers was going to be mine =)

If I remember correctly (it's been years):
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"

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That style always reminds me of a collage, so I am guessing that if you think 'Animated Collage' you should get what you are looking for.

*pssst* hey Scattered, you can use City Slickers 2.

...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."